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Statement from the Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe on World TB Day 2023; March 24th.

Dr Hans Kluge, Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe

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More investment will save millions more lives, accelerating the end of the TB epidemic.

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World Health Organization. (‎2016)‎. Chest radiography in tuberculosis detection: summary of current WHO recommendations and guidance on programmatic approaches. World Health Organization. 

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Epidemiologic and Economic Modeling

Modeling epidemics and economics of disease provide useful information on how to prevent the greatest amount of disease with existing resources. In 2014, CDC funded a 5-year cooperative agreement, the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) Epidemiologic and Economic Modeling Agreement (NEEMA), to support modeling activities to inform and, ultimately, improve the effectiveness of public health programs and activities supported by NCHHSTP.

NEEMA Funded Projects by Topic Area – Tuberculosis

NEEMA Published Papers – Tuberculosis

NEEMA Abstracts- Tuberculosis

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TB Trials Consortium (TBTC)

The TB Trials Consortium (TBTC) is a collaboration of North American and international clinical investigators whose mission is to conduct programmatically relevant research concerning the diagnosis, clinical management, and prevention of TB infection and disease.

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In 1896 Koch went to South Africa to study the origin of rinderpest and although he did not identify the cause of this disease, he succeeded in limiting the outbreak of it by injection into healthy farm-stock of bile taken from the gall bladders of infected animals.

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It is often the most vulnerable and the marginalized in society who are affected by TB, such as the very poor, migrants, prisoners, refugees, miners and people who use drugs. TB also takes a major toll on children. Too often, children with TB remain in the shadows and undiagnosed, with symptoms for TB frequently mistaken for other common childhood illnesses. A total of 64 percent of children with TB are never diagnosed, due to a lack of awareness and failing health systems.